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JANE, STEWARDESS OF THE AIR LINES
JANE
STEWARDESS OF THE AIR LINES
By
Ruthe S. Wheeler
THE GOLDSMITH PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO
Copyright, 1934
The Goldsmith Publishing Company
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I Graduation Night 11 II Opportunity Knocks 18 III Adventure Ahead 28 IV An Emergency Case 36 V With Flying Colors 45 VI Westward Flight 56 VII Crash Landing 66 VIII Winning Their Wings 77 IX At Mrs. Murphy's 84 X Jane's First Call 97 XI An Unexpected Delay 105 XII Alarming News 113 XIII The Black Plane 121 XIV Page One News 132 XV "Hello Heroine" 141 XVI Through the Fog 151 XVII An Ultimatum to Mattie 159 XVIII Sue Plays Detective 168 XIX Needed--One Pilot 174 XX Down in Flames 184 XXI Too Much Action 193 XXII Promotion for Jane 205 XXIII White Madness 220 XXIV Dangerous Passengers 229 XXV On Desperate Wings 237
Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines
Chapter One
Graduation Night
Jane Cameron looked breathlessly around the room where seventeen senior nurses of the Good Samaritan hospital at University City sat primly awaiting their diplomas. It was graduation night and Jane was among the seventeen who had completed all of the requirements for a certificate in nurses' training.
Delayed half an hour by an emergency case on third floor surgery, Jane had just slipped into the room and taken the remaining chair on the end of the line.
Dr. Albert Anthony, trim, energetic young head of the staff, was speaking. Beside him was the little white stack of diplomas, all of them rolled and tied with blue and white ribbon. Doctor Anthony's sharp voice was informing the student nurses that they were about to embark on careers of their own. Jane smiled a bit grimly.
She wondered just what career was ahead of her. The girl next in line turned and a fleeting suggestion of a smile hovered about her lips. She was Sue Hawley, friend and companion of Jane through the long, arduous months of training.
"Here's hoping he'll tell us where we can get jobs," whispered Sue, the words so close-clipped that it was almost impossible to detect her lips moving.
Jane nodded. That was the one big problem facing most of the girls who were graduating from nurses' training at Good Samaritan. As for herself, she had no idea what she would be doing after the following noon when she stepped through the doors of the great hospital.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Jane Stewardess of the Air Lines by Wheeler
- 2: Sue looked down at her diploma
- 3: Personnel manager of Federated Airways
- 4: I've noticed advertisements of the Federated Airways
- 5: And as for the chance to become a stewardess
- 6: Miss Hardy handed the letter of recommendation to Jane
- 7: We're to go out on the eastbound plane for Chicago
- 8: Charlie Fischer wants the flood light
- 9: Jane and Sue were able to talk
- 10: 4 is suffering from an attack of appendicitis
- 11: Speidel won't be here for another hour
- 12: Charlie Fischer whistled softly
- 13: Speidel wrote to a number of supervisors
- 14: Your supervisor thinks rather highly of you
- 15: This is a Federated Airways cab
- 16: With the chief stewardess leading the way
- 17: The great airport was almost at the height of its daily rush
- 18: That should keep off the wolf until Omaha
- 19: The chief stewardess was looking out the window
- 20: Miss Comstock hurried down the aisle
- 21: Miss Comstock cautioned them again
- 22: Said the steel nerved Miss Comstock
- 23: Flying is getting safer every day
- 24: When they reached the Kearney field
- 25: Charlie climbed down from the cockpit
- 26: North Platte was a regular passenger stop
- 27: Headquarters of the stewardess service will be here
- 28: When Miss Comstock called her name
- 29: Murphy that touched the heart of each one
- 30: Mattie has dreams of being chief stewardess
- 31: Van Verity Vanness is bound to be mighty particular
- 32: Alice asked the driver of the airport car
- 33: Van Verity Vanness feeling better pronto
- 34: Van Verity Vanness was sobbing softly
- 35: Van Verity Vanness comfortable in chair No
- 36: If aerial bandits were operating
- 37: Charlie Fischer looked down at her
- 38: Van Verity Vanness refused to see them
- 39: Van Verity Vanness gasped and clutched the arms of her seat
- 40: Hurled themselves at the black biplane
- 41: We'll have to put another stewardess aboard here
- 42: With the next stop the Newark airport
- 43: Van Verity Vanness commented on the financial situation
- 44: Van Verity Vanness brought her consent
- 45: 490 when she returned to Cheyenne
- 46: But Alice and I are ordered out on the eastbound mail
- 47: There's two sections tonight on the Flyer
- 48: But the pilots changed at Omaha
- 49: Passengers looked anxiously toward Sue
- 50: They remained at Joliet until mid afternoon
- 51: Mattie looked at Sue skeptically
- 52: Charlie Fischer looked up and grinned
- 53: It was early afternoon when they cleared Omaha
- 54: Speidel was attempting to learn from her
- 55: The druggist didn't want to give me an affidavit
- 56: All of which will be filmed here
- 57: A taxi rolled up and Claudette Barrett
- 58: You were the stewardess who was with Mrs
- 59: Jane saw him talking to Charlie Fischer
- 60: I don't want to lose my star stewardess
- 61: Jane opened the motor of the biplane
- 62: Jane watched the biplane closely as it neared the ground
- 63: The mechanics remaining to fold up the parachute
- 64: Murphy emerged from the kitchen
- 65: Turning to the Federated Airways people
- 66: James mentioned something about going to Hollywood
- 67: And the prettiest stewardesses
- 68: I'm starting for Tacoma tomorrow night
- 69: As the monoplane rolled out of the hangar
- 70: Miss Comstock was in the operations room
- 71: And Slim Bollei returned to the operations office
- 72: Slim Bollei came back into the main cabin
- 73: The chief stewardess shook her head
- 74: Slim Bollei staggered back into the cabin
- 75: The supervisor of nurses at Good Samaritan
- 76: Anton Mellotti and Chris Bardo
- 77: Bardo disappeared up ahead and presently the motors started
- 78: Evidently the pilot of the seaplane
- 79: It came alongside the seaplane handsomely